A flowering tree and building and the blue sky

#ScenesFromaBusStop

Blond woman in black dress with plunging neckline and floral beadwork necklace and earrings

Beadwork on point. ✅

Mural of a tree in green, brown, and pink tones at a bus stop in the Mission District of San Francisco

#scenesfromabusstop

I’m tuning in from Psychedelic Culture 2026 in my position as @chacruna.bsky.social Managing Editor, where I’ll be moderating a panel on Changing the Story: Psychedelics and Narrative Power.
#pcu2026 #psychedelicculture2026

Blond woman with large orange sun glass wearing black trench coat sitting on a bench in a park taking a selfie

DeWitt in San Francisco.

Still literally wildly allergic to this city. 😪😮‍💨🥴

I’m back in San Francisco for Psychedelic Culture 2026 with the @chacruna.bsky.social crew!

Exactly 💯

"The dynamic you see at play is social media feeds for young people are littered with climate scepticism, a vibe kept telling them 'yeah, it may be real but one solution is as bad as another so what are you going to do,' fuelling a kind of nihilism. This too is funded by nefarious petro interests."

‘It’s just madness’: Trump administration to close three-quarters of Forest Service research stations Between funding cuts, facility closures, and the inevitable resignations that will follow, there’s virtually no way for the Forest Service to continue to do research at its current level or quality, w...

“A lot of people say that the national forest system itself is where the real meat and potatoes is, and I think that’s a misrepresentation...You can’t manage wildfire, whether it’s fuel reductions or climate, weather, invasive species, if you don’t know what changes are occurring in those dynamics.”

Thai style fish curry

Tonight’s Recipe: Thai-Style Fish Curry
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Rating: Good
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Recipe by Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit
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epicurious.com/recipes/food...
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#cookingwithdewitt #cooking #curry #fishcurry #foodsky

Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT: An Uneasy Partnership?

New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles article from @hoodooalphabet.bsky.social! - "Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT: An Uneasy Partnership?"

chacruna.net/ibogaine-and...

#psychedelics #medicine #ibogaine #DMT

From a post:

“Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization.

So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

I need help with a pun. I'm working up a paper proposal about different attempts to understand Trumpism in light of historiographical concepts forged in debates about Fascism and Totalitarianism.

I want a title that's a play on Kershaw's "working towards the fuhrer".

"Working toward the X"

Copy of Ten apples up on top! Laying on a vintage floral blanket

2026 Reading Challenge: 29/50
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Ten Apples Up on Top! by Dr. Seuss
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⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Random House, 1998
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#wearereading #boardbook #booksky #childrensliterature #drsuess

Copy of Gobble, Up Snoopy! Laying on a Vintage floral blanket

2026 Reading Challenge: 28/50
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Gobble Up, Snoopy! by Charles M. Schulz with Scott Jeralds (Illustrator)
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Review on StoryGraph
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Simon Spotlight, 2019.
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#wearereading #childrensliterature #peanuts #librarybook #booksky

Three rainbow cupcakes on a wire rack, small child icing another cupcake in the background

Today’s Recipe: Homemade Funfetti-Style Cupcakes
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Rating: Good (Icing toooo sweet)*
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*The member of the house who chose the recipe and helped make has refrained from trying it so far.
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Recipe by Sally McKenney
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#cookingwithdewitt #baking #kidsbaking #cupcakes #funfetticupcakes

Most-Read NiCHE Articles Published in January 2026 #envhist #canadianhistory #urbanhistory #fire YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE

From racial capitalism and fire ecology to urban nightscapes, our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, has the low down of our most-read articles pubished in January 2026.

www.youtube.com/shorts/Hrxt8...

#envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social #fire

The Edible Windbreak: Caragana on the Prairies Settler agriculture reshaped prairie grasslands; drought-resistant Caragana windbreaks protected soil and crops, reflecting cultural efforts to remake landscapes and define prairie homesteads.

This conversation will be based on @kesiatk.bsky.social's 2018 CHESS reflection, "The Edible Windbreak: Caragana on the Prairies," which is our 12th most-read article of all time: niche-canada.org/2018/07/12/t...

#aghist #CHESS #envhist #cdnhist #prairies

Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Thurs, April 9th, at 12:30pm ET on Instagram Live

@kesiatk.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about caragana, windbreaks on the prairies, & the pull of the "home" landscape.

Follow NiCHE on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

... sigh ...

If you are a historian who wants a space to write about the history of the forest service, we're still editing our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series over at @nichecanada.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

@jmariedewitt s March 2026 Wrap-Up BOOKS 9 PAGES 1,007 Perfect Highest Victims Rated and the Politics of Apport Reads Bewilderment A NOVEL RICHARD POWERS AV. RATING 3.31 READY-TO-READ Gobble Up. SNOOPY! MOHAMMED EL-KU 5.0 4.5 4.0 Average book length: 117 pages Average time to finish: 11 days Childrens Literary Magical Realism Middle Grade Nature • • fiction (78%) • nonfiction (22%) Compared to February... Books + 18% 2 No. or books" Pages ₺ 24% 5 6 Plus 100 Pages read • print (100%) Day STORYGRAPH

March Reading Stats!

I’m @ jmariedewitt on StoryGraph, if you want to connect with me over there.

I may or may not be writing about Heated Rivalry as part of this series 🔥🏒👀 Come chronicle queer joy with me! Details at link below ⬇️

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

Heyo! - @tinaadcock.bsky.social, Sarah, and I decided to extend the deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” to APRIL 13th!!

It's hard to focus on joy right now. That's why we chose the theme.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

Press Release – Announcing Chacruna’s Psychedelic Culture Conference, April 17–19 2026 From April 17–19, 2026, the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines will host its signature conference, Psychedelic Culture, at the historic Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Bringing tog...

Only two weeks left until I head to Psychedelic Culture 2026.

See some of you there?

chacruna.net/press-releas...

#psychedelics #science #bayarea

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

The proposal deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” has been extended to April 13th!

Send @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, and Sarah York-Bertram your ideas related to queer joy.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

We've extended the deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment until April 13th!

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology

Happy Birthday to Saskatoon’s 7th Generation Rising Collective and a bit about the CUMFI clean-ups that I’ve been organizing for 7th Gen and @surjyxe.bsky.social.

#yxe #saskatoon #treatysix #communitycare

Extended State Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): Psychedelic Renaissance Progresses to Psychedelic Enlightenment Extended state DMT research extends the typically brief psychedelic experience, enabling sustained, controlled exploration of consciousness. Rooted in longstanding South American shamanic traditions, ...

New @chacruna.bsky.social Chronicles article from Chacruna course graduate Heather Hannah - "Extended States: A Renaissance Progressing Toward Enlightenment”

chacruna.net/extended-sta...

#psychedelics #dmt #medsky

SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS A NICHE SERIES PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MARCH 28TH SERIES EDITORS: JESSICA DEWITT, TINA ADCOCK & SARAH YORK-BERTRAM

SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" QUEER JOY SERVES AS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING WAYS THAT QUEER PEOPLE RESIST HEGEMONIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SYSTEMS.

SUCCESSION: QUEERING THE ENVIRONMENT IV "QUEER JOY" WE WISH TO BUILD OFF OF SCHOLARSHIP AND LIVED KNOWLEDGE THAT ENVISIONS QUEER JOY AS AN AFFECTIVE OR EMOTIONAL WAY OF KNOWING, SPECIFICALLY A WAY OF KNOWING AND BEING IN RELATION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN BEINGS.

WE SEEK PROPOSALS FOR SUCCESSION IV THAT: "QUEER JOY" • RESPOND TO THE CONCEPT OF JOY • FEATURE LGBTQIA2S+ FOLKS INTERACTING WITH AND THINKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN ANIMALS IN THE PAST AND PRESENT • EXPLORE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EMOTIONAL AND QUEER ECOLOGIES • REIMAGINE ENVIRONMENTAL TOPICS USING QUEER THEORY OR A RELATED QUEER LENS.

Friends! The deadline for Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” is tomorrow.

This is a biennial series that I edit for @nichecanada.bsky.social. The number of submissions is low right now, would love to see a few more roll in.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#queer #envhum